AWS Amplify Reviews

I use AWS Amplify along with AWS EC2, AWS Lambda, Amazon Pinpoint, and others. AWS Amplify, in particular, has been quite straightforward to use.

We've used AWS Amplify for several applications. Initially, it was for a specific project that required integration with third-party services and managing backend services. AWS Amplify was instrumental in managing AWS services like Amazon DynamoDB and others for us.

We use Amplify with our frontend (product) and backend (basically AWS). Amplify manages various AWS services for us, like DynamoDB, CloudFormation, and others. We customize it for our use case, of course. But let's say I want to add functionalities like antivirus or another database, or manage Lambda functions from the CLI or code. In those cases, we use the AWS console for those specific things. But Amplify is our main point of contact for backend changes through code, and it applies those changes seamlessly.

We have different environments like Dev, NetEnv, and UAT, so we need to change our configuration file depending on where we're deploying. The CLI handles this easily. 

Typically, whenever we make changes and need to switch environments (e.g., dev to production), it's easy for our developers to maintain the state of each environment and make customizations as needed. They don't necessarily need to involve the cloud team for basic management.

For anything deeply related to settings, we involve them. But at the developer level, for common functionalities like setting up the initial tech stack (database, Lambda functions, notifications), Amplify with the CLI pretty much handles everything.

I used AWS Amplify for a wedding video project to integrate a mobile app built with Flutter with AWS for uploading large video files, ranging from 2-3 GB up to 10-20 GB. I chose AWS Amplify because it was the best service to work with other AWS services I already used. It was very easy to implement with AWS S3 buckets, which I used to store and display the videos. AWS Amplify provided helpful features for uploading and downloading videos and setting up serverless commands to manage the process. I used the Amplify CLI to set up the storage components. While I used it with Flutter, AWS Amplify works well with other languages like React.

I like AWS Amplify's documentation. It's comprehensive and includes many examples, so you don't need to ask for help much - you can refer to the docs. It's easy to use. I also appreciate the cost structure. You only pay for what you use. For example, if you use 100 GB, you're charged for that, but if you don't use it, you pay the maintenance cost.

We use the solution in the backend to host applications. I used it for a short mini project where I was learning a bit of React Native. It was in React Native, where I was building an Uber Eats clone application with all three sides—the client side and the delivery side. We built out the three applications in React Native and used AWS Amplify for the backend. AWS Amplify is a very good tool to use. It provides a client command line interface that can be downloaded with NPM or Node modules. One thing I completely like is that they provide authentication services in a very good way. It supports two-factor authentication, Google sign-in, or any other sign-up/sign-in method. Nowadays, they also offer an Amplify UI, which you get out of the box when you install it on the project. Overall, it was a very great experience.

I didn't host my application but have used their backend as a service. It was a complete package with authentication, AWS AppSync, DynamoDB, and GraphQL. AWS Amplify is great if you don't know backend development and don't want to struggle with other backend services like MongoDB. You don't have to worry about what backend language or database to use. If you're confused, enroll with AWS Amplify. I also recommend Google Firebase for similar purposes.

These services provide the backend as a complete service. I really like that the solution integrates cloud services, so the data is real-time and starts quickly once the application loads. It has horizontal and vertical scaling that happens automatically.

For example, if you suddenly have 5,000 customers, it manages the sudden rise in usage. If there are only a few users, the solution decreases resources. It follows a pay-as-you-go model, so you are charged based on usage, like when you hit a certain number of clicks.

AWS has a very wide range of services, and AWS Amplify integrates these services. For example, it includes DynamoDB, also available as a standalone service.

Our primary use case is to leverage AWS Amplify for building and deploying web and mobile applications.

It has helped my organization by simplifying the development process and accelerating the time to market.

I am a front-end heavy full-stack developer with five years of experience in web development. For the last two years, I have been working as a full-stack developer on a couple of projects. We used AWS Amplify as a backend service with the React tech stack. Amplify integrates features like GraphQL, DynamoDB, Cognito, AppSync, and Lambda functions. We required a solution that could accelerate the development process for a project with stringent deadlines, so we selected AWS Amplify for its comprehensive backend services.

Using AWS Amplify sped up our development process significantly. It provides an all-in-one solution for back-end infrastructure, which is crucial for delivering a project quickly to a client.

We and AWS are partners, and my colleague asked me if I wanted to do some small project just to evaluate the product, and then I stepped into it. We used it for a small project or PoC for quickly building a new application.

Together with Ionic and Amplify, a nice use case is when you want to generate the backend very fast, and you want to have a desktop application and mobile application. You can use Amplify to quickly create the frontend, and for the backend, you can drop your backend APIs, and then you can publish the desktop application on the cloud. To create the mobile application, you can use Ionic.

The link with Figma is very nice. You can create your design in Figma, and then you can import it into AWS Amplify and use it. You can link it to your data source and data bindings.

I am using AWS Amplify for the front end.

The most valuable feature of AWS Amplify is authentication.